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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Apr 12, 2024 14:32:12 GMT -5
Anyone remember that one Raw right after the first Double or Nothing show where they did a continuous 40 minute promo, and the rest of the hour after commercials was Shane McMahon vs. Lance Anoa’i in a squash? That was real compelling televsion.
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Post by Bo Rida on Apr 12, 2024 15:04:44 GMT -5
Vince also decided to have many wrestlers randomly rant about millennials on multiple occasions
Except often it was delivered by someone who was a millennial themselves, most notably Becky Lynch turning against her fans for one Smackdown before a rare course correct.
He didn't actually know how old a millenial is, like Mr Burns and sideburns.
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Post by UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm on Apr 12, 2024 16:54:47 GMT -5
I finally got around to seeing that video HIM was talking about. It is a miracle any of us came back to like this shit, for real.
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Post by HIM on Apr 12, 2024 17:13:25 GMT -5
I finally got around to seeing that video HIM was talking about. It is a miracle any of us came back to like this shit, for real. I was shocked when I found out that it was just from 2 years. The Pandemic put a stop to all that shit.
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Post by ISO Mid Thigh Pull on Apr 12, 2024 17:18:31 GMT -5
Ucey Hot
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Apr 14, 2024 2:43:24 GMT -5
Anyone remember that one Raw right after the first Double or Nothing show where they did a continuous 40 minute promo, and the rest of the hour after commercials was Shane McMahon vs. Lance Anoa’i in a squash? That was real compelling televsion. There was also the bit where Dolph and Xavier brawled through the crowd for an eternity as a clear, "We can do that too!" after the Moxley / Omega brawl.
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Apr 14, 2024 5:46:09 GMT -5
My prevailing memory of this period is 2/3 falls and Shane being presented as a credible, ass kicking part-timer, only to turn heel and slowly twig people just didn’t want to see him wrestle in any capacity cause he had major Kendall Roy energy.
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Post by Mid-Carder on Apr 14, 2024 5:49:26 GMT -5
I had completely forgotten Lars Sullivan's existence until this thread. Wow. Forgetting everything else, he was such a weird choice for their next Top Guy
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Post by fg on Apr 14, 2024 6:39:07 GMT -5
The Erick Rowan push, with the planet champion Daniel Bryan partnership, doppleganger Rowan, different metal band shirts every week, attempting to murder Roman Reigns like Wile E Coyote, a PPV win over ROMAN f***ING REIGNS and reuniting briefly with Harper, was all f***ing amazing TV and I will f***ing die on this hill. then they gave him a pet spider Rowan's final few months is kind of a summary of the entire 2010s. Rowan debuts a mysterious cage and squashes jobbers for about two months while everyone speculates what's in it. Then he inexplicably loses clean to Aleistair Black, the cage is opened to reveal a dumb looking mechanical spider, and Rowan is fired. In other words, Vince had a "brilliant" idea, put it on TV without having any idea of what to do or where to go with it, then quickly got bored with it and tossed it aside, leaving everyone else scratching their heads and wondering "The hell was that about?". See also: Retribution, RAW Underground, the main roster runs of EC3 and Sanity, no fighting during commercials, Nakamura's Rumble win, a lot of The Fiend + Alexa stuff, MVP with Omos, The Bludgeon Brothers, spooky Judgment Day, etc. In 2020, didn’t Drew face Rowan and squash that mechanical spider? Wasn’t he the one that revealed that it was a mechanical spider?
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Post by King (Super) Dragunov on Apr 14, 2024 6:47:17 GMT -5
Vince also decided to have many wrestlers randomly rant about millennial on multiple occasions Except often it was delivered by someone who was a millennial themselves, most notably Becky Lynch turning against her fans for one Smackdown before a rare course correct. He didn't actually know how old a millenial is, ike Mr Burns and sideburns I could be wrong, but I seem to remember Ronda Rousey also calling someone else a millennial, while she herself was also a millennial.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Apr 14, 2024 6:48:02 GMT -5
Rowan's final few months is kind of a summary of the entire 2010s. Rowan debuts a mysterious cage and squashes jobbers for about two months while everyone speculates what's in it. Then he inexplicably loses clean to Aleistair Black, the cage is opened to reveal a dumb looking mechanical spider, and Rowan is fired. In other words, Vince had a "brilliant" idea, put it on TV without having any idea of what to do or where to go with it, then quickly got bored with it and tossed it aside, leaving everyone else scratching their heads and wondering "The hell was that about?". See also: Retribution, RAW Underground, the main roster runs of EC3 and Sanity, no fighting during commercials, Nakamura's Rumble win, a lot of The Fiend + Alexa stuff, MVP with Omos, The Bludgeon Brothers, spooky Judgment Day, etc. In 2020, didn’t Drew face Rowan and squash that mechanical spider? Wasn’t he the one that revealed that it was a mechanical spider? They revealed the spider in a backstage segment then the next week went out of their way not to mention it and that’s when Drew crushed it.
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Post by fg on Apr 14, 2024 7:20:13 GMT -5
In 2020, didn’t Drew face Rowan and squash that mechanical spider? Wasn’t he the one that revealed that it was a mechanical spider? They revealed the spider in a backstage segment then the next week went out of their way not to mention it and that’s when Drew crushed it. Ok thanks.
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Post by Doo Doo Dickhead on Apr 14, 2024 14:55:24 GMT -5
Vince also decided to have many wrestlers randomly rant about millennial on multiple occasions Except often it was delivered by someone who was a millennial themselves, most notably Becky Lynch turning against her fans for one Smackdown before a rare course correct. He didn't actually know how old a millenial is, ike Mr Burns and sideburns I could be wrong, but I seem to remember Ronda Rousey also calling someone else a millennial, while she herself was also a millennial. Yep, and there was also a Bryan/Vince promo where Bryan went off on boomers. But that was pretty great.
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Post by J is Justice on Apr 14, 2024 15:22:14 GMT -5
Was it worse than 1995?
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Post by chrom on Apr 14, 2024 17:43:14 GMT -5
Yes, because it felt like it was intentionally bad on purpose. 95 may not have been good but it didn't feel like they were insulting you
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Post by mattyy on Apr 14, 2024 19:29:16 GMT -5
Yes, because it felt like it was intentionally bad on purpose. 95 may not have been good but it didn't feel like they were insulting you Yeah 2019 literally felt like they were intentionally putting on bad TV because they, in their minds, could get away with it. The "Me and My Friend Mark aren't gonna watch anymore" was their actual opinion.
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Post by ISO Mid Thigh Pull on Apr 14, 2024 22:20:52 GMT -5
I put on an episode of RAW from June 2019 a I don't know how to describe it better than "I'm currently watching a 2/3 falls 6 man tag match"
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Post by thegame415 on Apr 14, 2024 22:33:20 GMT -5
Late 2010's WWE is awful.
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Post by theironyuppie on Apr 15, 2024 2:49:52 GMT -5
In 2020, didn’t Drew face Rowan and squash that mechanical spider? Wasn’t he the one that revealed that it was a mechanical spider? They revealed the spider in a backstage segment then the next week went out of their way not to mention it and that’s when Drew crushed it. It was at least slightly less abrupt than the time Natalya revealed she'd been given cherished heirloom sunglasses only for the Riott Squad to destroy said cherished heirloom sunglasses and the 6-woman tag having to be declared a no-contest because of Natalya's trauma and grief for the cherished heirloom sunglasses.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Apr 15, 2024 4:59:04 GMT -5
This was when I was *really* all in on NJPW, Okada and crew were absolutely killing it and WWE outside of a handful of interesting stuff like Kofi and Becky becoming world champs, that one time when Orton dressed as Cyclops and assaulted legends in the dark and AJ fighting Taker in the graveyard, WWE was largely just “there”. I didn’t think it was WCW 2000 levels of horrendous, but pre-Cody/Sami and Kevin/Bloodline wars, there wasn’t much for me Up North for me to give much of a horse’s patoot about.
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